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John O’Connor, senior vice chancellor for research and innovation, secretary of the State University of New York and president of the SUNY Research Foundation, has taken a voluntary leave of absence from his duties while the state Commission on Public Integrity and the Inspector General investigate whether he violated the state Code of Ethics.

The Commission on Public Integrity announced last week that there is “reasonable cause” to believe O’Connor violated ethics by employing Susan Bruno, the daughter of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, in a $70,000-a-year “no-show” job at the Research Foundation while Bruno ...

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